"Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara. O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac"

-- Frank O'Hara

#American Poetry Quotes

“I would not knock old fellows in the dust But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back His weapons were the old heart in his bust And a blade shook between rotten teeth alack.”

Source : John Crowe Ransom (1963). “Selected poems”
“One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.”
“I lay in bed at night by myself and Iâ€™m totally okay, and thatâ€™s so much stronger than the person three years ago, who would have thought they would have died if they didnâ€™t have a boyfriend.”
“Letâ€™s not mince words: the inside of the Sydney casino looks as if Vegas had an illegitimate child with Liberaceâ€™s underpants, and that child fell down a staircase and hit its head on the edge of a spade.”
“I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.”

Source : "American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation". Book by Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor, 2001.
“My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.”
“If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.”
“We know Saddam Hussein possesses chemical weapons - he has for nearly 20 years as we know only so well from his use of them against his own people and the Iranians. He has deadly stockpiles of biological weapons.”

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